The author of 12 books, Tim Tingle (Choctaw) is a four-time winner of the American Indian Youth
Literature Award for House of Purple Cedar (2016), How I Became a Ghost (2014), Danny Blackgoat: Navajo Prisoner (2014), and Crossing Bok Chitto (2008). He was also the recipient of the 2015 Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers Award for his PathFinders novel No Name.Tim has traveled to Navajo country every year since 1993, and the Danny Blackgoat series emerged from his